Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).

Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).

The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.

Matt Brailsford used a modified old tape player as interface to this Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, so listener can use the player (and the cassettes) as physical interface to the different playlists.

Binmatu – Crystylys

DVD-ROM, Kvitnu, 2013, Ukraine

Binmatu is a project by Slovak sound artist Jonáš Gruska, musician, visual performer, founder of the LOM label and developer of open source computer instruments and artistic software. So it’s understandable why this dvd has been released as a dvd-rom including music tracks encoded in three different ways (raw, high quality wav files and mp3) plus all the videos in hd. It may seem like like a ‘geeky’ choice, but it could be better considered as an multi-layered aesthetic concern. The videos, for example, are in hd, despite the use of low-res graphics often relying on moiré patterns, which seems to be an artistic statement. And the graphic design of the release package by fellow artist/musician Zavoloka perfectly reflects the content. The key seems to be in the different concept of audio-visual relationship that Binmatu fosters. This work is an expression of geometric simplicity that evolves continuously with clear hypnotic intentions (or as he calls it “psychedelic auralism”). In the notes he switches frequently between attributes of audio with video and vice versa, like in “fine tune your eyes and open your ears”. In his own words: “sound is an intimate power happening in our eardrums… a few millimetres from our brain, dwelling of the soul.” In fact he insists on giving transcendental qualities to the effects of his work, he defines them as a “direct touch at a distance” and “connecting etheric and physical.” Adhering or not to his spiritual theory, this carefully conceived release, properly experienced will definitely impact your senses.